Yesterday, a feature on IGN France stated that Nintendo would be offering up Nintendo Labo cardboard replacements for free. It seems that IGN got their wires crossed, as Nintendo has since said that won't be the case. In another feature, we did hear that Nintendo is considering offering up replacement parts at cost. In other words, if you accidentally damage one of your Toy-Cons, you might be able to purchase just the cardboard parts from Nintendo at a cheaper price.

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Can the "$70 cardboard" meme just die already?
Either too many people are oblivious or willing to ignore that there's a software cartridge involved with all of this.
Granted I do think the price is still very high, but they're not literally selling you a bunch of cardboard for $70.

I don't get the praise behind this product. I would never in a million years buy my kids $80 worth of cardboard cutouts regardless of their function. With how easily it would be destroyed by younger siblings, etc. it just makes no sense. If the price point was significantly lower I maybe could understand why this would be appealing.

Can the "$70 cardboard" meme just die already?
Either too many people are oblivious or willing to ignore that there's a software cartridge involved with all of this.
Granted I do think the price is still very high, but they're not literally selling you a bunch of cardboard for $70.

Calm down, if you don't like my opinion then don't reply to me. Any software I've seen wouldn't warrant the price they are asking for. This is aimed at kids and the thing will be destroyed so I don't see the point of spending that much on it.

I'm kinda used to that by now after years of dealing with all sorts of conversations online.
I do agree the price is insanely high and I hope they lower it, but I don't get why some people legit think it's only cardboard and I have to admit it irks me a bit to hear that.

Either people are legit oblivious to the fact that there's software involved or they just hate it and can't find a valid reason to shit on it, so they overexaggerate to make it look bad. I've seen both instances talking to others.

Funny we both posted a reply on the same theme simultaneously. I agree. The silver lining is that the overwhelming response has been positive. Only a few people are being negative, and for the most part they are doing it reflexively. As the Amazon sales charts show, this is going to be a hit, so they'll just have to get used to it. It's definitely different, but most people seem to be embracing that uniqueness rather than recoiling against it.

Ok, so let's call it "$40 for the game / $40 for cardboard" still way overpriced. I'm just saying I find it crazy people would pay that much. For all those that love the idea great, enjoy it or buy for the kiddos.

I would say more like: 60$ software / 8$ IR reflective strips / 2$ cardboard ?
Even then, you could probably chop off 10 buck from software and give it to the IR strips, these things cost an arm an a leg. >_>

Was it ever stated that replacements would be provided for free? I thought they said that Nintendo would provide the patterns for free, so you could make your own Labo peripherals out of regular cardboard (though that seems to have been false).

That's cool no? Let's say every replacement cardboard (+ other stuff), for one model, is 10€$. That's perfect. I'm planning to get the "Variety Kit" for myself on launch, but I also wanna bring it home next christmas and give my little niece a chance to build some of the models from scratch.

I have several kids who would want to decorate their own versions of the cardboard parts, so I'll be happy if the price point for backup cardboard is nice and low. I don't want to have to buy several copies of the software.

You may have some troubles with the more technical ones, as they supposedly have IR reflective strips, which cost surprisingly a lot of money. But yeah, nothing stops you from using your own cardboards, and even your own designs. I wonder what people will do to make the "RC cars" works differently. :P

Very true. It's a smart thing from Nintendo, since it buys them a lot of goodwill and people would've gotten their hands on the designs anyway, like you said. I'm still surprised, though! This is Nintendo we're talking about... They're a creative bunch, but they haven't always made the best market decisions

Well, they did market research and determined that the market doesn't have a need for most online capabilities (up until the Switch). And the online infrastructure on the Wii and Wii U were abysmal, which is something they'd have to decide beforehand based again on market research. That isn't part of gameplay.

But eh, it's starting to go toward semantics now. What I mean is that, while Nintendo is a great, creative and innovative company, they are definitely not without faults, and they make plenty of questionable decisions, either in marketing, concept, design, etc. and I wouldn't have put it past them to either not make the cardboard templates available at all, charge money for it, or maybe not even offer replacement cardboard

Oh I agree that no company is perfect. But its just that...to me atleast, Nintendo seems to be one of those companies that know how games are made..you know, like as in..fun? And not some greedy corp that slaps microtransactions and other DLC that often?

Idk, I guess I'm too sentimental or something because I trust Nintendo a lot because yeah, they have flaws but those flaws personally don't bother me that much.

Hm, maybe you're misreading the tone of my posts here. I'm a huge Nintendo fan! (Heck, someone recently brought it to my attention I'm the most active person on GoNintendo based on post count, and I wouldn't stick around here so much if I didn't love Nintendo to pieces.)

Their faults are often forgivable to me, and their philosophy is something I agree with to the core: It's about having fun. They just have that Nintendo Magic